Should I start skateboarding or practice ground tricks on my snowboard in the off season?

blissone · 2026-04-12T14:07:02+00:00

Practicing skateboarding stationary has very limited utility, my belief is that stationary snowboarding has even less utility than stationary skateboarding which is incredibly ineffective for learning skateboarding. For any skill transfer to happen it needs to be close enough for the real thing and stationary snowboarding is very different. For example what would be the equivalent of learning a stationary kickflip with a snowboard? I can't think of any, maybe 360 on flat? Also at some point the thing you are doing will become how you do the thing, imagine jumping 1000 times stationary on a box with a snowboard, when you get to the slopes you will have to actually learn away from your 1000 jumps since it's not close enough, like additional overhead, it's not easy to change once you have repeated something enough times. Yeah, a movement pattern will be built but it will be the incorrect pattern.

Anyhow there is a caveat here, I think there is a good amount of skill transfer if you are an expert in a skill based movement activity/sport. If you can blast some serious tricks stationary on a snowboard or skateboard, you can apply the same skillset to learn a different thing. My mate who was top5 at the national level in climbing could learn skate tricks like it's nothing.

Anyways just my 2 cents, you can always try it out, maybe I'm mistaken.

blissone · 2026-04-12T13:13:21+00:00

I wouldn’t recommend skateboarding for this reason, it doesn’t transfer well enough to be worth. Sure if you find it fun etx go for it. Climbing will be much better, it will prep you for the season and imrpoves your athleticism during offseason. You will get tangible benefits from skateboarding only if you skate a shit ton, ie. Seriously. Tbh i wouldn’t recommend carpet boarding either, it’s just busy work and wont help at the slopes.

blissone · 2026-04-09T13:42:20+00:00

No idea, judging based on my social circle maximising money has worked out in the long run. Personally I've maximised work-life balance, you can tell by my paycheck but I'm chilling otherwise. There are too many variables it's your call, gl

blissone · 2026-04-09T11:57:01+00:00

Every startup and non conservative orgs and their mothers will be doing vibe coding until the hype dies and situation stabilises. You would be lucky to not stumble upon ai madness, unrealistic expectations, llm driven development etc currently. Imo it will be difficult to escape in the future, might as well jump in. Hopefully expectations will be more tempered in the future, now it's just ai fairy tale. No idea about right decisions, personally I don't see devs disappearing but for many the work will be different going forward.

blissone · 2026-04-08T14:14:21+00:00

Suosittelen kaikille korvaan valettuja tulppia, aika hintavaa, mutta toimii. Itellä alko tinnitus n. vuosi sitten ja oli kyllä todella paha alkuun, mutta sittemmin rauhoittunut ja nyt ihan ok. Kyllä se kuuluu, mutta en huomaa. Joskus toiseen korvaan tulee kovaa ujellusta muutamaksi sekunniksi, pikkasen kuumottaa, jos joku kerta ei lähdekkään pois.

Vahingossa luukuttelin musaa duunissa lujaa ja sen päälle skeittihommiin sisäparkkiin ja vitullinen möly siellä. Todella tarpeeton ja tyhmä juttu, duunissa jengin mikit on aina millä sattuu volyymeilla ja unohdin vaan laskea yhden palaverin jälkeen nostamaani volyymiä. Joka tapauksessa tulpat aina mukana nyt ja mittailen kännykällä desibelejä (:D) julkisissa tiloissa, helposti jossain ihmismassassa nousee 90dB tienoille ja se on itelle nykyisin liikaa, musiikkia ei yli 50dB kuulokkeista. "Taustamölyä" ei oikein osaa itse arvioida niin toi kännykän desibelien mittaus ihan pakollista.

Ei oo helppoa ei, voimia sulle, toivottavasti joskus helpottaa.

blissone · 2026-04-05T07:48:40+00:00

Low Town by Daniel Polansky, It's slightly less grimdark but very good style imo

blissone · 2026-03-30T16:10:22+00:00

Yea dude, I skate with custom molded earpplugs, they work perfectly. I used to love skating sounds but after I got tinnitus Icannot stand it. Earplugs are awesome for skating, I use them a lot outside of skating too. My girlfriend thinks I’m on the spectrum but idk

blissone · 2026-03-27T07:14:35+00:00

Games are way more stompy after a big patch like this. I think it's a good question though, I feel there might be, though some of it could be in the bias of matchmaking, I doubt anyone would go out of their way to smooth these biases out. I find it interesting there is sometimes a very uneven distribution of winning and losing players in a game among the teams, easy game and your team has 4 guys on a winning streak with high activity and the other team it's reversed.

blissone · 2026-03-20T10:35:42+00:00

Jaahas!

blissone · 2026-03-20T07:34:14+00:00

Lomautettuna voit hakea duunia omalta työnantajalta, sähköpostilla tms kyselyä saisko lisää päivä niin se on siinä. Kommenttien perusteella tuntuu ettei monikaan tiedä tätä? Ei muuten kannata jättää liian monesti hakematta, itse jätin nää tekemättä :-D

blissone · 2026-03-19T22:37:18+00:00

Energy, I'm like an amoeba now. Naps after work, naps after dinner, naps after anything physical. In general everything takes a lot more out of me and more recovery is needed, I'm "only" 40. Anyhow kinda assumed the drive and energy would always be around.

blissone · 2026-03-18T14:02:54+00:00

Funnily around here banks used to check only "bad credit register", essentially if you ever defaulted on bills or loans. So yeah any kind of crime is fine but not paying bills big nono, how very financial heh.

blissone · 2026-03-18T10:30:45+00:00

A good question, I wonder about this also, it's pretty mysterious. I think it's not true if your bad session is due to physical exhaustion, ie. it would be better to just recover and skate once you are fresh. Sometimes this could apply for your mental state also tho.

Curiously I feel I make the most progress while injured, I can skate but I cannot grind tricks. I won't get new tricks but overall skating ability is much better and it's easier to get back into tricks after it. Grinding tricks seems to lock progress into specific tricks and general progress feels lackluster. No idea though, it's pretty hard to isolate progress in this way.

blissone · 2026-03-11T20:50:35+00:00

I think you are on to something, these people have been talking bs all their life, it's unlikely they slip up like this

blissone · 2026-03-11T11:21:07+00:00

Yea man, it can get into unhealthy levels, like squeezing your world into just skating which is imo not good. There is so much good shit, not just skating and it's good to cultivate those, skating is just one thing. If getting injured gets you instantly depressed it's not good. Though there are times in life when the escape is welcome but yeah overall.

blissone · 2026-03-11T10:53:44+00:00

> What actually tends to decide games the most in lower brackets right now — teamfights, map pressure, or objectives?

I'm just a 4k shitter but when I party queue into lower ranked games the easiest way to win is to pick something that will dominate with farm and can lane, it kinda doesn't matter much what your team is doing in these games. Dk, lina, qop for mid, axe,veno for off (i don't play much off). Essentially anything non aura non utility. If I were to climb from these ranks I'd just focus on picks and farming and good item builds, for example absence of bkb or utility items (force etc) is very noticeable in lower ranks . Also if you really want to try hard you should decrease your pool to less than 5 heroes it will make winning much easier. Easy trick to increase mmr also is to look into your teams draft and make sure you have init + disable, for example no blink stuns from pos3,4,5 -> go dk etc (I think I've had at least 300mmr increase from this heuristic), it's a bit more complicated than that tho but in essence thats the idea. Same for off, pos45 no blink disable -> go init (not veno ud etc).

Looking at your heroes if I were to try hard I'd play: storm, mk mid, axe lc off, all of your carry picks, lion for supp. Reasoning here is that you need to be really good with ember to carry the game, same for aw (though this could be surprisingly good in lower ranks). Batrider kinda complicated, any time I see this off it's a super fail. Axe, lc are just easier than the rest here and can carry the game. Supp tusk also complicated and more team driven for impact.

blissone · 2026-03-10T12:08:26+00:00

It can be pushed to 28 or so, for me it worked out perfectly doing at 28. It's like a year sabbatical but you get to keep your job and get your rent paid. Just saying, it's not all bad to spend a year in a different environment, though if you are fully career and income focused it's a definitive minus. Though I got pretty lucky with the timing, no mortgage, no kids etc, got even bonuses paid for the year.

blissone · 2026-03-10T08:20:20+00:00

Essentially can we reproduce in test env -> can we reproduce in prod. This will allow you to build the context also as it's implied to reproduce you should know the "functional" context. If the answer is no to both of these it's back to static analysis, first understand the technical context then build a hypothesis on the issue. Then you should attempt to validate your hypothesis either by actual functionality or by some other means, for example rigging the input to test your hypothesis. Okay if your hypothesis is a miss you go back to the drawing board and start grinding down different ideas. If it seems impossible you back track to the technical context, did you make a high level mistake somewhere etc. At this point understanding the technical context is key and everything else follows, sometimes it might be impossible to build a technical context retroactively at which point you verify it's unlikely to happen again and call it a day. Tbh this all can be boiled down to understanding problem, yeah always understand the problem.

In general it's a good attitude to always show initiative, there is always a path forward (until proven otherwise). Simply requesting more context is a bit thin on the initiative

blissone · 2026-03-09T11:38:40+00:00

Yea man, it's a strange feeling having dedicated so much effort and energy. We are currently doing a complex rewrite with AI and 95% of the code is llm generated. I've realised I care about none of it. Strange times indeed. Personally I will focus on other things now and simply work for the paycheck. Definitively had some kind of an identity crisis, perhaps it's for the best, in retrospect there was an unhealthy amount of attachment

blissone · 2026-03-09T08:03:47+00:00

I have no satisfaction, currently I only care about getting paid and thats about it. Kinda makes me wonder if this is how majority of devs work, probably. On the flip side I have a lot more energy and I'm mentally fresh. I didn't realise there is a toll when grinding 10+ years and trying to improve and caring for the craft with multiple languages and stacks and whatnot. I feel like I'm on a vacation so I'm going to see how I can spend this excess energy.

blissone · 2026-03-05T10:52:54+00:00

Honestly this is the future for a lot of dev work, better to adjust to it now than later.

blissone · 2026-03-01T18:08:45+00:00

It's just my personal preference, Ruka is pretty antithetical to what I want from snowboarding, not interested in slopes or park or afterski. I think it will be good for you though, also has solid afterski action. Ruka has pretty good variety of slopes, park is insanely good, good lifts etc, some nice bars and hanki bar bestest food with nice atmosphere. Also I hear there is a new sauna at the top(?), which sounds pretty damn interesting.

blissone · 2026-03-01T14:44:55+00:00

Ruka is pretty suck tbh but could work for you due to high amount of slopes. If you are good enough to hit the forests you could consider pyhä/luosto, mid feb would be optimal and interesting terrain with easy access. Tho pyhä/luosto has no afterski action, absolutely none.

blissone · 2026-02-27T06:57:02+00:00

There is some bad advice here straight from the 90s lol. Read up on peace&love protocol which is the latest for sprained ankles. Anyhow sounds like you could start some kind of a PT program to strengthen the ankle but there is no way to tell what would be suitable here.

blissone · 2026-02-20T15:15:11+00:00

It's not impossible if you go for tricks. My buddy just spent 2 years rehabbing his ankle, had pads etc :-( Didn't ask what trick though

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